Best Casual Restaurants in Leschi / Madrona / Madison Park

We had an amazing experience at Mari Pili and will definitely be back! We enjoyed some delicious cocktails, including the Sangria which was delicious. We then dined on a series of small bites. Since this is a tapas bar, all of the portions are small to medium which makes it easy to try lots of different things. The dishes that stood out the most to me were the croquettes with ham and cheese, the scallops (they were very instagramable, served on cute half shells), and the arroz meloso, though everything was incredible. The staff was super friendly and helpful and the price point was reasonable. We cannot wait to go back!

Lovely food and ambience, had a great time here on Valentine's Day.

We always have the best time here! We come about once a month! Service is always amazing and the food is outstanding! Shoutout to Max for always taking great care of us!

Bart, Francis and their team are outstanding. Loved the chowder soup and taco salad! Super friendly and great atmosphere. Highly recommend and will go back over and over again!

I had family here from California, and we arranged to meet at this restaurant, which I had been to once previously. I remembered that it was good, and also that it was near Seattle Center, and I had a hunch these two would want to poke around over there once our meal was done, so it was a perfect location. The service was warm and friendly, but never intrusive, and the food was divine. I ordered the "sweet stuff" French toast with caramel and strawberries; nobody else makes it like this, and it was mouthwatering! I also ordered (to go) some "soft scramble" eggs with asparagus and Dungeness crab. It's so hard to get real, fresh crab anymore, what with the overfishing, but my eggs had actual leg segments of crab in them, a perfect ratio of filling to egg. The eggs came with their amazing potatoes, and my husband and I had that dish, along with a small amount of leftovers from my French Toast, for dinner that night. This may be my favorite Seattle restaurant right now! The cherry on the sundae, so to speak, was that when we were finished, we sat and chatted and nobody seemed anxious to kick us out of our booth. Oh hell yes.